Real Salt Lake releases 2014 broadcast schedule

A Real Salt Lake player poses for a photograph during media day in Sandy Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)

Real Salt Lake released its TV broadcast schedule for 2014 on Wednesday. Real will be televised to a national audience seven times throughout the season.

NBC Sports Network will feature six of those contests, and ESPN2 will feature one. Local channels ABC 4 and CW 30 will broadcast the other 27 games.

Notable matches throughout the season are March 8 in the season opener when Real travels to Los Angeles to play the Galaxy; March 22 when the Galaxy travels to Salt Lake; April 5 when Real travels to play Kansas City in a rematch of last season’s championship; May 17 and Sept. 19 when Colorado visits Salt Lake.